Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...that even the scenes of our childhood days seem like phantoms of the past! Some time since application was made to convert all of Nonconnah and its bottoms into a drainage district, and some technicality has delayed the proceeding; but, sooner or later, the Gordian knot will be cut, and a dull ditch will be all that is left of the majestic stream, once known as Nonconnah. In the fall of 1917, and previous thereto, I rode in an auto from Holly Springs in the main southeastward direction, towards Pontotoc, and crossed Chewalla Creek (quite a stream), the main branch of Tippah Creek, sometimes called Tippah River, and crossing to the southwest of the Frisco road at Potts Camp, we then crossed another affluent of Tippah; these considerable creek bottoms having the main characteristics of the country from Holly Springs to Memphis, and in addition, the country had a more mountainous and picturesque appearance, owing to the many hills rising abruptly from the bottoms. Since the foregoing was written, viz., on December 1, 1918, again I went over the same road; C. H. Curd, long time editor of the Holly Springs Reporter, being a member of the party. After we had crossed the Kansas City or Frisco Railroad at Potts Camp, going southwest, and then crossed quite considerable creek bottoms, we ascended some high hills, rising abruptly from the bottom land. After going some two to three miles further, the ground was still higher, and Mr. Curd pointed out to us the top of a distant ridge, which he said was fourteen miles from us, and was the site of Holly Springs. He went with us to a high hill one mile west of Holly Springs, locally called Rocky Mountain, because of its height and the presence on its top of large sand stones, some ten feet in length and...
